Julie Begum chairs discussion with Shahida Rahman at writeidea festival 2022. Shahida was born and raised in Cambridge, UK. Her late father, Abdul Karim moved to Cambridge from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1957. Shahida writes historical fiction, non-fiction…
East End Tales in the Secret Chapel: Historic Headlines, Community Action & Memoirs of A Cockney Sikh Dates November 24, 2022 – November 24, 2022 Times 6:30 pm – 8:15 pm Price £7.00 Location Oxford House Chapel Join us…
Dear BritBanglaCovid friends, I am very grateful for registering and/or attending the BritBanglaCovid\’s British Bangladeshi Women: Past, Present and Covid, a Zoom public meeting. It was such a joy to hear from a diverse range of women\’s experience of British Bangladeshi origin…
Bengali Community Dinner at BBC Community Centre, Toynbee Street FREE COMMUNITY DINNER 25th March 2022, 4PM – 7PM! Join us, East End Homes and Swadhinata Trust to celebrate local Bengali heritage with Bengali food and a screening of \’Stories of \’71\’,…
Interview with Julie Begum chair of Swadhinata Trust
Happy new year! Our film launch event on Sat 22nd January at 4pm will be marketed via the university networks in Dhaka from this week (coordinated by our good friend and colleague Professor Shaila Sultana of the University of Dhaka…
This book of photography has been a long slow-burning project for the Swadhinata Trust, a volunteer led London based secular Bengali community group that works to promote Bengali history and heritage amongst young people. It started many years ago when we discovered…
History begins at home, and as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence, acclaimed artist Rahemur Rahman is working collaboratively with a group of artists as well as young people from Tower Hamlets to represent the living spaces…
Swadhinata Trust took part in the Being Human Event marking the 50th anniversary of Stepney Words at Great Hall, People’s Palace, QMUL in a panel entitled ‘Grassroots’, on the grassroots legacies of Stepney Words with the other panellists, Ken Worpole…
Wednesday 17 November 2021 2pm at Altab Ali Park £8/£5 concessions It was SOLD OUT! The annual Banglatown walk and talk for anybody interested in Bengali migration and settlement in the East End of London. It is an opportunity to…